Carl Zwanzig said the following on 7/12/2005 12:25 PM:
>Rant: Why is it that normally sane companies feel the need to replacing
>something that works and is easy & cheap to maintain with something that
>while it usually works, is hard to maintain once it breaks (which it will),
>and costs a metric bundle for licenses?
>
>
Marketing.
"Oh we were contacted by this company who claims that what we have is
bad, and what they have is good, and they have all this stuff to back
them up. So we're switching to this."
And.. "because the CEO told us to--he wants his "Outlook"."
Best,
--G.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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